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Aerojet Rocketdyne, UT, ORNL Take on New Advanced Manufacturing Thrust
The College of Engineering and the US Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have embarked on a new initiative in additive manufacturing for the aerospace industry, with Aerojet Rocketdyne and the Air Force Research Laboratory.
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Eastman Engineers Help Get Unit Ops Lab Running
A team of engineers from Eastman has come from Kingsport to help install equipment and experiments in the Eastman Unit Ops Laboratory in the Nathan W. Dougherty Engineering Building.
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Research Highlight: Ramki Kalyanaraman and Gerd Duscher
This technology would not only help individuals be more energy independent, but would enable scaling up of light-energy-harvesting products to carpets, curtains, tents, and even textile-based solar farms.
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Research Highlight: Claudia Rawn
In 2011, Rawn and her research team won an NSF award for the Research and Instructional Strategies for Engineering Retention (RISER) program. Rawn’s team was selected for its work with female and diverse students. The RISER program supports the goal of NSF’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP)—to recruit and retain students…
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Research Highlight: Jeff Reinbolt
“Simulations can complement experiments to become a great asset to health care professionals,” said Reinbolt.
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UT Professor Andy Sarles’ Research Into Droplets Could Lead to Breakthroughs in Detection, Clean Water
The ability to pull water out of fog is just one of many possibilities made real by research involving assistant professor Andy Sarles of the College of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee. The project Sarles took part in—Air-stable Droplet Interface Bilayers on Oil-infused Surfaces—was published recently in…
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Research Highlight: Steven Skutnik
A proposal by Steven Skutnik, assistant professor in nuclear engineering, was awarded $755,000 to develop new capabilities for a fuel-cycle simulator called CYCLUS by building on an Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) software package for nuclear fuel modeling called ORIGEN.
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UT, IACMI Benefit from Swimming Pool Manufacturer
According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, fiberglass pool manufacturer Leisure Pools plans to increase its Knoxville work force to 1,000 in the next decade. Crucially for the UT-led Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, part of their growth will come from composite materials manufacturing.
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ANS Honors Hashemian, Team for Work in Nuclear Education and Training
“This award is humbling but gratifying,” said Hashemian. “It is validation of the effort we put in to preparing the nuclear workforce for the current challenges and for those yet to come.”
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UT Engineers Reaching Out to Little Systers in Area High Schools
Now, the group is turning its attention to high school students in Knox County with its Little Systers event, carried out with the help of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ East Tennessee group and CURENT (the multimillion-dollar power grid research center at UT).
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